REVIEW: Firebird – A Double Bill
Reading Time: 2 minutesGhost Light, John Neumeier’s 2020 work and the first half of London City Ballet’s double bill, takes its title from the lamp left burning in a darkened theatre until life returns to the stage.
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REVIEW: TELLUS
Reading Time: 2 minutesDickson Mbi turns a bedtime story into a ceremony of reconnection Bedtime stories are conventionally designed to send children to sleep, and it is to Dickson Mbi’s credit that the one he first conceived for his son…
REVIEW: Stories
Reading Time: 3 minutesStories, the self-styled “Tap Dance Sensation” has decided to take a lifetime of cinematic drama and deliver it in a single breathless hour.
REVIEW: The Love That I’ve Lost
Reading Time: 3 minutesGalentine’s Day is usually sold as a celebration of brunch and unbridled female friendship, but in Morgan Clarice’s The Love That I’ve Lost it is closer to a coping mechanism. Michelle, newly separated,decides to host one in the hope of distracting herself and her family from the men they have lost.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jessica Kinsey and Benjamin Askew
Reading Time: 3 minutesLADY M is a one-woman journey into the mind of Shakespeare’s “fiend-like queen”.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Tim Crouch
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat own for an exclusive interview with Tim Crouch to discuss his landmark play An Oak Tree, returning to the stage at The Other Palace Theatre.
REVIEW: Three Short Ballets
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the Linbury Theatre, Northern Ballet presents a new work and two revivals so different in tone as to suggest three separate evenings, though the dancers navigate deftly from one to the other.
FEATURE: The Afronauts Launch
Reading Time: 2 minutesFive weeks to the moon! In 1964 Zambia won its independence, and a schoolteacher announced that the new nation would beat the superpowers to the moon. It sounds invented, which is presumably why the Royal Court's release calls it "true(ish)". Ryan Calais Cameron's The Afronauts sets out to put the story back on the record, and it has five weeks of rehearsal in which to do so.
REVIEW: Blue/Glas
Reading Time: 2 minutes"When words fail, movement and touch take over" is the premise offered for Blue/Glas, National Dance Company Wales's London double bill.
REVIEW: Borscht
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrancesca Baker and Jonny Davidson light up Borscht, a funny and unglamorous look at breakups in your twenties “Men and women can’t be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.” Borrowed from When Harry…